I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

I am happy in my prison of passion